Everything on this site is free to read and free to reuse with attribution, and that is not going to change. This page is for the companies who need more than that: a licence they can put in front of their own customers, a watch on the vehicles they are responsible for, or somebody to build the thing that consumes it.
What is here
| Register | Published by | Notices held |
|---|---|---|
| United States | NHTSA | 15,694 |
| Canada | Transport Canada | 18,132 |
| United Kingdom | DVSA | 9,000 |
| European Union | Safety Gate | 6,421 |
| Netherlands | RDW | 4,226 |
| Japan | MLIT | 10,541 |
| Six national registers | 64,014 | |
Alongside them: 21 studies computed from that record, a dictionary of 29 terms the registers use, 67,183 published pages in all. Every notice is kept with the date it was read and a fingerprint of its wording, so a later rewrite can be shown rather than asserted. That is the part no authority keeps and no competitor has.
What is free, and stays free
The registers, the studies, the cross-border dataset and its API, the feeds, and the assistant tool. Attribution to carsmultiverse.com is the whole licence. That is not a trial and it does not expire; the filings belong to the public and we are not going to start charging for reading them.
What is paid for
A licence to use this inside a product
For a company putting recall data in front of its own customers: no attribution line in your interface, a written statement of where each field came from, notice before anything changes shape, and a person answerable when a row is wrong. What you are buying is not the data. It is somebody standing behind it.
A watch on the vehicles you care about
Name the makes, models, years or campaign codes that matter to you — a fleet, a forecourt, a book of policies, a client’s cars — and all six registers are watched for them. You are told the day a notice appears, and the day its wording changes, with both versions. The public version of this is recall watch; the paid one is scoped to your list, delivered where you want it, and answerable.
Integration, and the work around it
The site is built and run by an IT consultancy, which is why it exists at all. If what you need is the thing that consumes this record rather than the record itself — a check inside your own system, a report your people actually read, a feed into somewhere awkward — that is ordinary consulting work and it is quoted like ordinary consulting work.
Sponsorship of a register
One register index carries a sponsor’s name and a line about them, labelled Paid, with no say over anything on the page beneath it and nothing inside a notice. The rules are on how this is paid for, and they are not negotiable, which is rather the point of publishing them.
What is not for sale
- A link, a mention or a logo inside a recall notice.
- A study written towards a conclusion somebody wanted.
- The removal, delay or softening of anything in the register.
- Exclusive access to filings that belong to the public.
Where to start
Say what you are trying to do and which of the six registers it touches, on the contact page. If the honest answer is that the free version already does it, that is the answer you will get.